The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-07
WHEELING MORNING FEBRUARY Y, 1857 "
Of the ballot has gone on. For days
Camden and hia followers have echemed
and csjoled md threatened, For days
tho faithful twslve have bepn nroof o,n,nol

! OF the ballot has gone on. For dayt
Camden and hia followers have echemed
and csjoled md threatened, : For daya
tho faithful twelve have been proof against
bis threats md fa!teries. For a week
every soul In Charleston has known that
Camden Is doomed. He himaelf has long
ago surrendered. II is a moral certainty
that ne cannot y aother Domocrat
vote. Not one: Wh. hen do his iorcea
cohere? To give him lime to buy Re.
puSlicans. He only needs six. Can
they be gotr That is tho question. II
they can he must hold his iorcgs-but
holding them he holds, perhaps, half n
dozsn--their names could 'be given-who
are not in cordial sympathy with the .'re.
calcitrsnts." II only lead was taken liiy
!suded CAUCUS would dissolve, and his
real strength would number perhaps
score. What is needed now, what the thou.
sands oil voters whoHe voices are hushed
needs, what tho oaths OF every represer.
tatiye demands, Ia q Moses-a man who
In tho joint assembly, will declare his al.
legiance to the caucua ended, his duty
done. his conscience absolvsl. II On eight
ballots Camden has failed. rHs cannot
succeed. Why then waste the peoples
money and the Legislatures time by on.
acting and re.enRc.ing n grand political
iarce. None. A mans frat duty Is to
his State. IL the State served In this2 No.
Who ISL Camden! 2..l
"When ,,, went therc by time since tho flood, z
Wien The hlgh wall OF Rome encompassea ba.
Atno time within tho history OF the
politics OF this State has an occasion arisen
whore reputation Is SO easily and GER
tainly won as now. All that Ia needed iis
ior come bold man In tho Camden caucus
10 rayo!t-throw of the Camden ehsckles
and declare for the people. Ths other
sympathizers will soon follow, aud tho
ilrat thing that Camden knows bis broken
column will be rushing hoedlessly over
the field whiis the good sense and sound
Democracy OF the Assembly will chose bis
successor. Moreover he will be man
o. the people aud an enemy to monopoly.
Iheso aro what the people want and what
the Btrikefs, sycophaut, political bummers
aud Senatorial hustlers hate. God speed
the day and raise US up man.
God give US men. a time like this demands
STRONG minds, great hearts, tue faith, and ready
~ hands:
Men whom the lust OF 0lica docs not kill;
Men whom spQlls OF ONCE cannot buy;
Men who pos'ess optniooB and Il Will;
Men who loSc honor men who y Ill not lie: |u
Mcl who can stand betors demaeogue
And ssotn bis treacherous 1attering without wink.
..r Ing; ,s.=g u rTgI. > - =.
Tall men sun.crowned, who 1.-Two above tho fog
In public duty and III p,ivAic thinsing-
For While the rabble with tncIr thumb worn creed
Their latge professions and their litt!o deeds, :
Minslc III selfish strife, 10! Freedom wcCps, i ;
Wrong rules the land, aud waiting Justice keeps
Such a man will bs more famous than
the Senator he makes Who is the man
Ho Is somewhere in Camden's cause, or
else great occasion suffers for want Of a
man. The caucus being without warrant
in law, politics or! conEcience, whore its
members aa legislators arc sworn first to q
higher ,duty-iealty to the people-its
beneficiary aud author will bs buried with
It's ruins. And all the people will say
amen. DEMOS.